Impact of safety culture on safety performance; mediating role of psychosocial hazard: An integrated modelling approach

GMA Naji, ASN Isha, ME Mohyaldinn, S Leka… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
We conceptualize that safety culture (SC) has a positive impact on employee's safety
performance by reducing their psychosocial hazards. A higher level of safety culture …

Review of the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Producing Waxy Crude Oils

AM Sousa, TP Ribeiro, MJ Pereira, HA Matos - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Within the oil and gas industry, there is unanimity that wax deposits-driven pipeline
blockages are a critical environmental concern and an economic liability of up to billions of …

Synthesis, characterisation and pre-evaluation of a novel terpolymer as pour point depressants to improve the Malaysian crude oil flowability

I Elganidi, B Elarbe, N Ridzuan, N Abdullah - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Springer
Wax deposition is considered one of the most serious operational issues in the crude oil
pipelines. This issue occurs when the crude oil temperature decreases below the …

[HTML][HTML] On the economic impact of wax deposition on the oil and gas industry

AM Sousa, TP Ribeiro, MJ Pereira, HA Matos - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Partial and total blockages due to wax deposition in wells and pipelines gather consensus
as a billion-dollar problem in the oil and gas industry. However, an exact quantification is still …

Study on optimized culture of microbial strains and their ability in wax removal and viscosity reduction of paraffin-based crude oil

B Wang, Y Chang, R Ma, Q Zhang, W Wang - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
High-viscosity paraffin-based crude oil is prone to wax deposition at low temperatures,
hindering development and transportation efficiency while posing safety risks. Microbial …

Synthesis of a novel terpolymer of (BA-co-SMA-co-MA) as pour point depressants to improve the flowability of the Malaysian crude oil

I Elganidi, B Elarbe, N Abdullah, N Ridzuan - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021 - Elsevier
During the extraction of crude oil, the reservoir temperature is much higher than the surface
temperature especially when the oil is transported cross subsea. Therefore, the flow of virgin …

Effects of crude palm oil and crude palm kernel oil upon wax inhibition

T Ragunathan, H Husin, CD Wood - ACS omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ever-increasing demand for the finite source of oil has led oil production companies to
produce and transport the produced crude oil as efficiently and economically as possible …

Modeling apparent viscosity of waxy crude oils doped with polymers using tree-based models, radial basis function neural networks, and Gaussian process regression

MS Adnan, M Safaei-Farouji, B Amiri-Ramsheh… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The probability of wax precipitation increases as temperature decreases and this happens
during the flow of crude oil from a high temperature reservoir to the cool surface facilities …

Effects of miscible CO2 injection on production recovery

N Abdullah, N Hasan - Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production …, 2021 - Springer
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) injection is implemented into the reservoir to further improve the oil
production efficiency, by mixing with oil at reservoir condition, and becomes miscible. The …

SiO2-Based Nanofluids for the Inhibition of Wax Precipitation in Production Pipelines

D López, AA Ríos, JD Marín, RD Zabala, JA Rincon… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Wax deposition in high-wax (waxy) crude oil has been an important challenge in the oil and
gas industry due to the repercussions in flow assurance during oil extraction and …